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Nîmes, in Gard
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Occitanie · 777,323 residents · Chair: Françoise Laurent-Perrigot

Gard

€1.1 billion spent in 2025.

€1,400 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Gard spends, by policy

  • Health and social care61%€665M
  • Administration and shared services9%€94.7M
  • Middle schools and education6%€65.9M
  • Fire, rescue and safety6%€62.3M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€58.7M
  • Roads and transport5%€54.1M
  • Town planning and housing4%€47.8M
The 5 other items (4%)
  • Culture, sport and youth2%€19M
  • Environment1%€11.5M
  • Economy and trade1%€7.6M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€343k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€1.1M

Source: 2025 accounts of Gard (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.09B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people50%€545.8M

    Minimum income, disability, elderly care, child welfare, accommodation.

  • Staff18%€191.4M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors13%€136.1M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions6%€67.2M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Grants and contributions6%€62.4M
  • Banks and lenders5%€58.7M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€17.3M
  • Other1%€9.1M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Gard (DGFiP).

41 contracts signed in 2025 · €18.7M before tax

Why this total differs from the €136.1M paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€98.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €127 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • Travaux acrobatiques2025€4.9M
  • Fourniture, transport et mise en oeuvre d’enrobés sur les routes départementales 20242024 · 2 companies€2.5M
  • Mise en oeuvre de revêtements superficiels combines (RSC) et de béton bitumineux…2024€2.4M
  • RD40 aménagement d’une voie bus entre nîmes et caveirac du pr1+0940 au pr 5+02002023 · 2 companies€2M
  • Travaux de réfection des toitures et des désordres afférents du collège Claude Chappe de…2025 · SARL A.C.B. (au Coeur du Bois)€1.5M

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €35.2M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Gard (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.01B · borrowing: €55M · spending: €1.09B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)65%€709.3M
  • State and other contributions21%€230.9M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€33.5M
  • Users and rents1%€5.9M
  • Other receipts3%€29.7M
  • Borrowing5%€55M
  • Drawn from reserves2%€23.7M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€624 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

7 years of savings to repay it

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Départements of the same size”: median of the 29 départements of 777,000 to 2.6 million residents.

The levels above Gard

Spending per resident in 2025, and what each level pays for.

  • DépartementGardMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,400
  • RegionOccitanieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €529

Each row: the body’s own spending per resident, the figure at the top of its page (DGFiP). Not to be added up: a grant from one level is spent by another.

Who is part of Gard

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The département pays for middle schools, social help (minimum income, elderly care, disability, child welfare), départemental roads, and funds the fire and rescue service.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Do you work for Gard, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Gard · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source